This document provides instructions for creating and customizing presentations in Google Slides. It outlines how to start a new presentation, add slides with different layouts like title and two columns, insert pictures, videos, tables and other objects. It also describes how to change themes, transitions, add animations and publish presentations online. The steps are broken down into sections for each task with bullet points listing the specific actions.

1. Google Presentations

2. Start a new Presentation
• Click on Create
• Select Presentation
• Click on a Theme
• Click OK

3. Start a new Presentation
• Click on Untitled presentation
• Enter a new name for the
Presentation
• Click OK
• Type in Title and Subtitle on
the Title page

4. Start a new Presentation
• Click on the dropdown arrow next
to the New Slide button
• Select Title and Body
• Type in a heading
• Type in notes and click on the bullet
points button on the toolbar

5. Title and 2 columns
• Click on the New Slide button
• Select Title and Two columns
• Type in a heading
• Type in notes and click on the bullet
points button on the toolbar

6. Title and 2 columns
• Click on the New Slide button
• Select Title only
• Add drawings, graphics or
diagrams

7. Title and 2 columns
• Click on the New Slide button
• Select Caption
• Insert photos and add a caption

8. Add a Picture
• Go to Insert –Picture or click on the Picture button
• Click on Choose an
Image to upload
• Click Open and then
upload
• Resize by clicking and
dragging on the corners
• Right click on picture to
hyperlink to a website

9. Add a Webcam picture
• Go to Insert –Picture or click on the Picture button
• Click on Take a Snapshot
• Click Allow and Close
• Click on Take Snapshot
• Take a few and then select
the one you want to use
and click Select
• Resize by clicking and dragging on the corners

10. Add a Picture from Google
• Click on the picture
• Click on Full Size image
• Click on URL,
highlight and copy
• Go back to Google Doc, click on
Insert Picture
• Click on By URL
• Paste into URL box, click Select

11. Add a Picture from your album
If you have a blog and you have uploaded photos to it then you have access to them
• Click on Insert a picture
• Click on a folder of
photos
• Click on the picture
you will use and then
click Select

12. Add a Picture from your Drive
If you have downloaded Google Drive to your computer, you can add your photos by
clicking and dragging the folder of photos onto the Google Drive folder.
• Click on Insert a picture
• Click on Google Drive
• Click on My Drive
• Click on the picture
you will use and then
click Select

13. Add a Movie
• Select a blank side
• Go to Insert – Video
• Type in a search word
• Select movie

14. Add a Table
• Add a new slide, choose Title
Only
• Click on Table – Insert Table
• Click and drag the number of
cells
• Insert rows, columns by going
to Table
• Merge Cells by highlighting
two cells and selecting Merge
cells

15. Import other slides
• Select a blank side
• Go to Insert - Import slides
• Select the presentations you
want to appear in this
presentation
• Click Select and they
will appear

16. Publish to the web
• Click on File – Publish to the Web
• Click on Start
Publishing
• Click Ok
• Copy the code and embed in
wiki or blog

17. Animations - Slide
• Go to View – Animations
• There are 2 choices
– Slide
– Object
• Click on the arrow next to slide and
choose a transition
• Choose a speed and if you want it to
apply to all slides

18. Animations - Object
• Go to View – Animations
• Click on an object to animate on your
page
• Click on Add animation
• Choose an animation style
• Choose whether it will be On Click or
After Previous
• Choose the speed

19. Word Art
• Add Word Art to your page by going to
Insert – Word Art
• Type in the Word and press Enter
• Use these tools to change colours and font

20. Add Objects
• Add Objects to your page by going to
Insert – Shape or use the shapes button on
the Toolbar
• Click and drag shapes onto page
• Use the line and fill colours to change colours

21. Add Background
• Change the background of a slide by
clicking on Background
• Choose a colour or choose an image
• Click Done or Apply to all if you want it
to be on all slides

22. Add Layout
• Change the Layout by clicking
on the Layout button
• Choose a different layout

23. Add Theme
• Change the Theme by
clicking on the Theme
button
• Choose a theme

24. Add Transition
• Change the Transition
by clicking on the
Transition button
• Choose a transition